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NewsCooley seeks to replicate US diversity success
Successful applicants to UK fellowship scheme will be given up to £12,000 towards tuition and study expenses.
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News£45m funding boost for group claims firm
PGMBM has entered a funding partnership with alternative investor North Wall Capital.
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NewsPay solicitors more for advising on wrongful convictions - report
Legal aid rates for work on alleged miscarriages of justice are lower than they were 25 years ago.
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NewsBarristers lose £6.9m fees appeal over unenforceable DBA
Claimants challenged an arbitration decision that they had not proved loss of earnings.
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NewsFormer government lawyer Rose appointed to Supreme Court
Lady Justice Rose's appointment doubles the number of women sitting in the UK's highest court.
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News'If it ain't broke, don't fix it!', joint committee tells Human Rights Act review
Joint Committee on Human Rights says evidence confirms the legislation works well.
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NewsGovernment to tackle 'inequitable' funding arrangements for private prosecutions
Costs recoverable by a private prosecutor could be capped at legal aid rates.
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NewsPrivate equity investor grabs stake in consultancy law firm
Phoenix Equity Partners says Setfords provides ‘superior offering’ to solicitors and clients alike.
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NewsTribunal orders BPP to pay disabled former law lecturer £168k
Unfavourable treatment of employee included comment she was ‘mad as a box of frogs’.
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NewsBudget 2021: Sunak 'turning a blind eye' to law and order
Lawyers' leaders say the wider justice system is a poor relation in HM Treasury's priorities.
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NewsBudget 2021: New moves on ‘tax avoidance promoters’
Package of measures to strengthen existing anti-avoidance regimes.
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NewsBudget 2021: Solicitors react to stamp duty confirmation
Fears for overstretched property sector as transaction volumes expected to rise.
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NewsBudget 2021: City welcomes ‘transformative’ review
UK Listings Review proposes dual class shares with enhanced voting rights.
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NewsBudget 2021: Biggest incorporated firms face hike in corporation tax
Businesses posting £250,000 profits told to brace themselves for 25% rate.
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NewsBudget 2021: Stamp duty holiday extended until 30 June
Rishi Sunak outlines measures 'to turn generation rent into generation buy'.
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NewsGreene to step aside as Law Society president
Edwin Coe senior partner has announced that he will relinquish presidency on 19 March amid a long-running client dispute.
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NewsBar chief dismisses complaints of 'woke' bias from tweeting barrister
Jon Holbrook had asked Bar Council to 'stand up to the mob', but its chair says he ignored professional obligations.
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NewsMagic circle firm snaps up former government law chief
Sir Jonathan Jones joins Linklaters’ dispute resolution practice as a senior consultant.
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NewsLegal aid fraudsters fail to set aside £5m judgment
Lord chancellor brought charges based on doubts about almost 5,800 immigration cases.
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News'Landmark moment': attorney general goes on maternity leave
Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act rushed through parliament so Suella Braverman did not have to resign.